James Wan appears likely to direct the upcoming New Line horror film The Conjuring, Variety reports.

Though previously reported for development through Summit Entertainment, New Line has instead taken the rights to the project and will have Peter Safran and Tony DeRose-Grund producing.

From sibling scribes Chad and Carey Hayes (Whiteout), The Conjuring is based on the true story of the Perron family and their supernatural encounters in their Rhode Island home. Ed and Lorraine Warren, experts in paranormal activities, investigated and the alleged occurences, inspiring both The Amityville Horror and The Haunting in Connecticut.

Insidious was a great movie at the cinemas if you ask me, although it heavily borrows A LOT from other movies and TV programmes, namely Poltergeist, The Woman In Black, and UK's infamous Ghostwatch (three of my favourite supernatural thrillers).

Seems that James Wan has an interest in more than just sadistic torture and creepy masks. The director and creator of the Saw movies has joined the Summit Entertainnment project, The Conjuring, which is inspired by the true-life story of the Perron family of Harrisville. The script is being written by Chad and Carey Hayes, who are known for Whiteout and House of Wax.

The Perrons claimed that they “lived among the dead,” meaning that they felt their farmhouse was haunted by spirits during the 1970s. Apparently the movie deal comes with the life rights to the Perron family and Ed and Lorraine Warren, famous New England paranormal experts who studied the house at the time (they are also known for investigating the Amityville Horror Case). There isn’t a production start date as of now, so it will be a while before we can experience the Rhode Island hauntings for ourselves on the big screen…